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- 2025-11: Uganda / Soroti: Emergency Relief Distribution Report – Flood-Affected Families in Teso Region
On 6th Nov 2025, Action of Love International (AoLI) conducted an emergency relief distribution exercise to support families severely affected by the ongoing floods in rural communities of Teso. The intervention was made possible through the generous funding and partnership of the PBF. This humanitarian response aimed to restore hope and dignity to flood-affected families who have lost their homes, property, and livelihoods.
- 2025-11: Uganda: Emergency Situation Report: Floods in Teso Subregion, Uganda
The assessment was done as a reflection of the Clinic’s operation and performance by our clients and beneficiaries of our services since our opening on (January 7th 2025) . The aim is review the feedback objectively for an improved performance and service delivery going forward.The summary of the survey was presented as follow.
- 2025-11: Ethiopia /Lalibela: Report on the Patient’s Service Satisfaction Survey at PBF Memorial Clinic
The assessment was done as a reflection of the Clinic’s operation and performance by our clients and beneficiaries of our services since our opening on (January 7th 2025) . The aim is review the feedback objectively for an improved performance and service delivery going forward.The summary of the survey was presented as follow.
- 2025-10: Ethiopia: Support for 921 School Children in Marginalized Communities of Southern Ethiopia
The new school year in Ethiopia begins in September, according to the Ethiopian calendar. However, the following mentions school-age children are highly vulnerable to pursuing their classes.
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2025-10:Ethiopia / Lalibela: third round eye treatment campaign
The PBF Memorial Clinic has successfully completed the third round of the eye treatment campaign.
It has been more than six months since the PBF memorial clinic fully started health care service. The clinic has done a lot to help people by offering free eye treatment in addition to basic health care. The people of Lalibela and the surroundings have greatly benefited from the clinic’s services, with many individuals experiencing improved vision and overall health.
- 2025-09: Kenya / Mathare: Report on sanitary pads distribution
Today, we visited Huruma estate, Nairobi, to issue sanitary pads to both school-going girls and young mothers. The need in this community is immense, as many women and girls are unable to afford sanitary pads. Some are forced to use torn clothes, which is unhygienic and exposes them to health risks, as well as shame and missed opportunities such as attending school. Read more
- 2025-09: Kenya / Nairobi: PBF School Feeding Program In Mathare Slum
Uji (porridge) for breakfast and lunch. The immediate goal for the Uji Program is to reduce hunger and malnutrition and increase school enrollment, attendance and retention.
- 2025-09: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Ethiopian New Year Celebration at PBF Memorial Clinic and August 2025 Month Service Performance Evaluation
PBF Memorial Clinic is located south of Lalibela Town. There are around 20,000 households in the area, which is about 5 Km from Lalibela Public Hospital, but there is no other health facility. We are on the right track in providing better, modern medical care and closer access to healthcare for the community.
- 2025-09: Kenya / Bondo: George Orimba passed away
George Orimba One of the PBF trustees in Kenya passed away on August 16th, 2025.
- 2025-08: Ethiopia / Gashena: Clean Water Projekt
Access to clean water is a basic human right but many in rural Ethiopia continue to suffer from waterborne diseases due to lack of safe drinking water. In response, EMC with the hand of PBF launched Clean Water Project since 2015 to improve community health and reduce water-related burdens in Gashena and surrounding areas.
- 2025-08: Ethiopia / Lalibela: A weekend filled with blessings, joy and new life
Here in our clinic, we experienced something truly extraordinary — a weekend filled with blessings, joy and new life.
- 2025-08: Flyer 2025
The 2025 flyer, which the PBF also sends to its donors and friends by mail, can be found here 2025_Sozialwerke_Stiftung_Peter_Bachman_e
- 2025-07: Sri Lanka / Dankotuwa: Janaki Ranmuthugala, Shaping Clay, Inspiring Lives
In the serene village of Dankotuwa, Sri Lanka, clay takes on new life in the hands of Janaki Ranmuthugala—a professionally trained artist whose terracotta creations speak not only of beauty, but of resilience, heritage, and community empowerment.
- 2025-07: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Peter Bachman visited the Destitutes
Destitutes are individuals who have been marginalized and left without basic necessities such as food, shelter, and healthcare. Many aged people without a caregiver, mothers with many children and have no partner, people affected by chronic diseases, and individuals with disabilities are among those supported by PBF. The Destitutes project aims to provide these individuals with the support they need to improve their quality of life and break the cycle of poverty.
- 2025-07: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Laudato Si village became a center of PBF activities
The recently built Laudato Si village became a center of PBF activities, offering a safe and supportive environment for those in need. It has over a year since delivered for the destitutes in the community, providing essential resources and services to improve their quality of life. The success of the village has inspired us to adopt similar models for sustainable development and social support.
- 2025-06: Ethiopia / Addis Ababa: Peter Bachmann Visits the PBF Center for Elderly Care
VDI is a small association in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, dedicated with great commitment to supporting homeless elderly people. The center provides a warm meal each day for 70 to 90 people, as well as beds for some and medical assistance. All visitors are especially vulnerable due to age, illness, and poverty. Additionally, beds are available where the homeless can find safe shelter and basic healthcare.
- 2025-06 Kenya / Kantafu: June 2025: Kenya/ PBF opens a center for differently disabled children
This is Center for Children Living with various kinds and levels of Disability. It is in the Center of Mathare in Nairobi. Many children are born with all sorts of disability in these areas especially because of the kind of life people face. Unfortunately, there are no public or government institutions in this place to accommodate these children.
- 2025-06: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Dr. Robert Sucher from the Austrian Ethiopian Society visited PBF Memorial Clinic
Numerous individuals, including officials, guests, and the general public, have visited the clinic since its official opening and have been consistently taken aback by our performance. One of the most important missions of the PBF Memorial Clinic is also integrating our healthcare service into the outside world.
- 2025-06: Kenya / Serialization of Dr. Peter’s Visit to Kenya
Dr. Peter first visited Kenya in the early 2000 as a private visitor. He met several people who showed him around various parts of if the country. He later started supporting projects and individuals in the areas of groups and self-help. These included small business, agriculture, access to water and individual medical support. Many young students from poor Nairobi slums and rural villages got a chance to study and start small business.
- 2025-06: Ethiopia/Lalibela: The second round of the free cataract surgery campaign was conducted in the presence of Dr. Peter Bachmann
It has been five months since the PBF Memorial Clinic officially inaugurated. The clinic has started comprehensive health care services and free campaigns in the last couple of months. Nevertheless, Dr. Peter has not visited the PBF memorial clinic since the first stone was set in January 2023, when it was constructed. In May, the time comes for Dr. Peter to finally visit the PBF memorial clinic and attend the upcoming cataract surgery campaign, bringing hope and healing to those in need.
- 2025-05: Switzerland / PBF board: It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to Elisabeth Weber
- 2025-05: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Peter Bachmann visits the PBF Memorial Medium Clinic
Dr. Peter visited Ethiopia in the first week of May. The purpose of his trip was to observe the operation and ongoing development of the PBF Memorial Medium Clinic. It is the largest project in the history of the PBF in Ethiopia and was officially opened on January 7, 2025, on the Christmas of Gena.
- 2025-05: Kenya / Nairobi Mathare: Page Vision School receives a visit in Mathare/Nairobi
- Page Vision School has been a focus of PBF for a decade. Donations of all kinds from individuals, organizations, and church communities are countless. We often receive clothing, shoes, and even used electronics like computers. We accept everything, although the biggest challenge is getting the donations to those in need, where they are needed. We try our best.
- 2025-05: Kenya/ Kantafu: Center for Children with Disabilities
- Background
Mathare, an informal settlement, a vast slum settlement, emerged even before Kenya’s independence. Many people who had lost their land to British settlers moved to Nairobi and settled with their families along the Nairobi River. They survived by working as porters, gardeners, cooks, and nannies for wealthy families in Muthaiga, a wealthy neighborhood in Nairobi.
- 2025-05: Dan Amolo: My long-term journey with PBF
After meeting Peter Bachmann in Kenya/Nairobi in 2004, he entrusted me with supporting and following up on various projects he had initiated with individuals and groups. Around the same time, Peter invited me to accompany him to Lalibela, Ethiopia, where PBF had begun project work under Getachew Aydagnw, a forest engineer.
- 2025-05: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Before the Launch of the Second Eye Treatment Campaign
Project Overview:
Medical needs in Lalibela remain urgent, particularly for preventable and treatable eye diseases such as cataracts, which affect particularly vulnerable populations. Building on the success of its first cataract treatment initiative last month, April, PBF Memorial Clinic is preparing to launch its Second Eye Treatment Campaign, which aims to restore sight and transform lives.
- 2025-05: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Easter Holiday Support, 2025
As one of the humanitarians supports which has been delivered for more than two decades, providing holiday supports to the neediest people continues to be vital.
- 2025-04: Kenya / Nairobi: Education support for Slum Children in Mathare
One World Network. A community organisation registered and operates in Mathare, an informal settlement in Ruaraka sub county of Nairobi we depend on the Peter Bachnann Foundation for all our activities in Kenya.
- 2025-04: Ethiopia / Lalibela: PBF Memorial Clinic started a free cataract surgery campaign
PBF Foundation has contributed to the health sector by providing individual medical cost coverage, community-based health insurance support, and health institution establishment like Gashena Emanuel clinic. PBF Foundation has made a significant impact on improving access to healthcare in Ethiopia.
- 2025-04: Ethiopia / Lalibela: PBF Memorial Clinic is prepared for the first cataract treatment campaign on April 5th
PBF Memorial Clinic has opened for the service and is now fully equipped with state-of-the-art technology to provide top-notch care for patients undergoing cataract treatment. Read more […]
- 2025-04: PBF launched an official YouTube channel for the project documentation
PBF Foundation has provided so many projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Sri Lanka, and other developing countries. This initiative was documented and published on the PBF website. Read more […]
- 2025-03: Uganda: Empowering Lives Through Education
I am honored to share a significant milestone in our journey toward inclusive education. Action of Love International has successfully enrolled its first cohort of students with disabilities into secondary education. Read more […]
- 2025-02: Kenya: Donations: PBF accepts and gives both financial and in-kind support for the poor.
Every little donation matters! PBF accepts both cash and in-kind donation for our beneficiaries in Africa. With this support we have built classrooms, done boreholes provided Read more […]
- 2025-01: Ethiopia: A reflection of our work in Ethiopia
January 7th is the Christmas celebrations day among the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. People come from far and wide to Lalibela, the iconic Holy City in the North Wolo region of Ethiopia for Pilgrimage. They come Read more […]
- 2025-01: Ehtiopia / Lalibela: Thirty years later: The PBF Gena celebrations in Lalibela 2025 in a larger context
As we celebrate this important anniversary, the Foundation faces new challenges in an ever-changing world. The Foundation’s goal remains to continue to bring about positive Read more […]
- 2025-01: Ehtiopia / Lalibela: Preparation for the opening of PBF Memorial Clinic makes a special day in PBF history in Ethiopia
Following fourteen months of diligent effort, teamwork, and dedication, the clinic’s construction was successfully completed. The clinic is well-positioned Read more […]
- 2025-01: PBF – a flourishing field. Memories of the beginnings by co-founder Michele Pedrocchi
30 years of the Peter Bachmann Social Work Foundation – a milestone of humanity I actually wanted to go through texts from the foundation’s early days to refresh Read more [..]
- 2025-01: The Bodhi leaf from Sri Lanka becomes the trademark of PBF
Since my highly adventurous journey as a 24-year-old globetrotter overland to Ceylon in 1964, I have been strongly connected to this island in the Indian Ocean. After more than half a century, Read more […]
- 2024-12: Uganda / Teso: Disabled children sleep on mattresses and have blankets for the first time – they experience Christmas
While the whole world celebrates Christmas, PBF enabled the children with disabilities in Teso to celebrate this festival with a smile for the first Read more […]
- 2024-12: Ethiopia / Lalibela: PBF Memorial Clinic construction is fully completed
This week means the last week of PBF Memorial Clinic construction. The clinic will soon be ready to provide much-needed medical services to the community in Lalibela. The construction process has been Read more […]
- 2024-12: Ethiopia / Lalibela: In the vicinity of the PBF Memorial Clinic, impoverished families received immediate rehabilitation assistance
Mergeta Feleke is 80 years old, and his wife, Alemitu Bitew, is 65 years old. They were displaced 2 years ago from Tigray. They are living Read more […]
- 2024-12: Kenya: PBF helps an elderly person whose house burned down
A woman lost her house through fire! This lady is a 76-year-old widow. She lives alone under the mercy of well-wishers, having lost 8 of her children to various diseases. Last month, she accidentally Read more […]
- 2024-12: Ethiopia / Bongo: PBF initiatives are continued for Elephantiasis-infected Manja communities
Manja communities have been the focus of PBF for the past one and half year because they align with the organization’s mission objectives. PBF supported these communities with Read more […]
- 2024-12: Uganda: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
This day is intended to raise awareness of people with disabilities. On this day, the focus is on dignity and personal rights to personal well-being. For PBF, these people, especially young people Read more […]
- 2024-11: Sri Lanka: Reestablishing PBF’s Mission in Sri Lanka
Since the 1990s, PBF (Peter Bachmann Foundation) has been dedicated to uplifting marginalized communities and creating lasting positive change in Sri Lanka. For decades, PBF has focused on addressing the needs Read more […]
- 2024-11: Sri Lanka / Chilaw: The Peter Claver Institute for Mentally Handicapped Children, formerly the Peter Bachman Institute, is celebrating its 20-year anniversary
During our stay in Sri Lanka, we visited one of the PBF sustainable projects of the Peter Claver Read more […]
- 2024-11: Sri Lanka: PBF Support for Anthony Kumar: His Transformation from Handicapped Fisherman to Guest House Owner
Anthony Kumar is handicapped due to the polio virus and lives in Negombo Beach, Sri Lanka. He met Dr. Peter first in 1996 at the beachside of Read more […]
- 2024-11: Getachew Visits Sri Lanka for the First Time
Karu’s Untired Golden Hands, From Nothing to Silver Medalist on Wood Arts. Getachew Sale, a PBF coordinator for Ethiopia, made his first trip to Sri Lanka together with Dr. Peter Bachmann to see PBF projects. Read more […]
- 2024-10: Ethiopia / Lalibel: PBF received a certificate of honor for its support of community-based health insurance
For the past four consecutive years, PBF has largely targeted the sick, the elderly, people with disabilities, women house heads and children who lack access to healthcare Read more […]
- 2024-10: Ethiopia / Lalibela: PBF Memorial Clinic opening date has changed to Gena (Ethiopian Christmas) on January 7, 2025
The conflict surrounding Lalibela and the whole Amhara region makes it difficult to call people for November 17, 2024. We appreciate peoples understanding Read more […]
- 2024-10: The pilgrimage, the Camino, to India and Sri Lanka began 60 years ago
In his personal testimony, Nicholas Nanayakkara describes his decades-long relationship with Peter Bachmann. In 1964, exactly 60 years ago, he reached what was then Ceylon, now Sri Read more […]
- 2024-10: Ethiopia / Durame-Doana: PBF provides school construction and annual stationery support to the destitute children of Durame and the marginalized Fuga community
PBF has targeted destitute and marginalized communities in the past 10 years to provide them with access to education Read more […]
- 2024-10: Kenya / Nairobi: PBF Health Services in the Slums of Nairobi
The AfyaMtaani Team hereby presents a report on the relocation of our Clinic to a new location and the continuation of our Outreach Program in Mathare and Huruma Slums in Nairobi. Relocation Due Read more […]
- 2024-10: Kenya / Nairobi: School is faced with great Dilemma
PBF through the local community based organization One World Network (OWN) supports young boys and girls attending an informal school in the middle of a slum. These children come from single parent families Read more […]
- 2024-09: Ethiopia / Bongo: Shoes for Elephantiasis infected patients
PBF Shoes Support for Elephantiasis infected marginalized Manja tribe. In the last two years, PBF has contributed significant support for the Manja community. Elephantiasis disease and other forms of sociocultural isolation have a significant impact Read more […]
- 2024-07: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Mohammed Mushaga’s touching journey from a village to a master’s degree graduate
The PBF family is celebrating the graduation of our Mohammed Mushaga. He earned his master’s degree in foreign languages and literature from Addis Ababa University Read more […]
- 2024-06: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Reaching out for them to stand on their feet
As part of PBF’s vast humanitarian support, searching for the forgotten and most needy people and enabling them to stand on their feet (apart from getting the basic food) is one of the major tasks. Here Read more […]
- 2024-05: Ethiopia / Bonga: Fountain for the Manja Elephantiasis Rehabilitation Center
The health center for the marginalized Manja tribe opened on October 13, 2023. PBF intervened due to the unusual extent of this infectious disease. We reported on it. The Read more […]
- 2024-05: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Interior Middle Clinic in Lalibela/Ethiopia half financially secured
The history is repeated here: The initiative goes back to a young doctor, Dr Taddese Taye, a nutritionist Getachew Sale, and an experienced health expert, Abebe Zewdu. They founded Read more […]
- 2024-05: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Helping people to help themselves – four current examples in Lalibela
They are current examples of people living in a country like Ethiopia, in a small rural town like Lalibela. Tourism is/was the only source of income for the people there. The question Read more […]
- 2024-05: Switzerland / Wil: Wheelchairs for disabled children in Uganda
On the recommendation of Hans-Peter Hutter, member of the PBF board of trustees, the Catholic parish of Wil SG in Switzerland started a collection on this year’s First Read more […]
- 2024-05: Kenya / Nairobi: Rain and floods: work of the PBF Foundation in Nairobi
The PBF supports various projects in Kenya: a microcredit program for rural women in Kitui and Mathare Sports opportunities for young people in Mwingi and Mathare slum, Nairobi Training Read more […]
- 2024-04: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Support programs for blind students
PBF has been supporting people with disabilities in some East African countries for more than two decades. In Ethiopia, especially in Lalibela, PBF provides regular support for the disabled: direct Read more […]
- 2024-04: Ethiopia / Lalibela: PBF Memorial Clinic construction is progressing quickly, and the opening is scheduled for November 17, 2024.
The PBF Memorial Clinic has started by aiming to provide good health care for the poorest of the poor in the surrounding community. On the other Read more […]
- 2024-03: Ethiopia / Addis Ababa: PBF supports the renovation of toilets and showers in the VDI hostel for the homeless in Addis Ababa
When I visited the VDI retirement center in the middle of the metropolis of Addis Ababa a month ago, I discovered that the main problem was poor hygiene Read more […]
- 2024-03: Kenya / Mbuye: Getachew visit to Mbuye village
Every young individual attend school to achieve their academic aspirations. After students graduate from university, they will be able to choose their paths. Most students want to remain in the city while seeking work. Read more […]
- 2024-03: Uganda: PBF work with People with Disability (PWDs) in North Eastern Uganda – a visit
Action of Love International is Community based organization in Soroti region of Eastern Uganda, Teso Area. This is a remote locality where very little government public Read more […]
- 2024-02: Kenya / Nairobi: Getachew Sale visits Kenya for the first time and reports on his first day
After arriving in Nairobi at lunchtime on Sunday, February 25th, George and Dan met me at the airport and drove me to where I would be staying for two weeks. After some rest, Read more […]
- 2024-02: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Joie de vivre and confidence characterise the everyday lives of the people in the new Laudato Si housing estate
PBF is once again creating decent housing for the underprivileged in Lalibela. It is extremely difficult for the poorest families to own Read more […]
- 2024-02: Ethiopia / Addis Ababa: Challenges at the VDI retirement center
Today, February 12, 2024, I visited the VDI retirement center VDI in Addis Ababa. VDI was founded by Terfa Dinka many years ago in the center of the metropolis Addis Ababa for people who live on Read more […]
- 2024-02: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Roch churches in danger
Rock churches in Lalibela: cracks are getting bigger. The fighting was dangerously close, but rain is the greater danger. Our team in Lalibela is shocked by the report in AfricanArguments on February 7. Mesay and Abebe comment on it in detail, confirming Read more […]
- 2024-02: Making room for the lives of the unhoused/ Laudato village dedication, part 2
Peter said to Jesus: “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will build three tabernacles here, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” Matthew 17:4 This Read more […]
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2024-02: Laudato Si Community house handingover
PBF has invested for community-centered projects in Lalibela over the past 18 years! Among these activities is building houses using only local building materials and providing shelter to the homeless. The foundation Read more […]
- 2024-02: 30 Years PBF
Dear friends of the PBF Foundation It is with joy and gratitude that we report here as a team on the experiences, challenges and progress of our work with the communities and individuals who deserve and whenever possible receive our support. Read more […]
- 2024-02: The value of health insurance for the marginalized Manja and Fuga communities in southern Ethiopia
Access to healthcare is a natural human need. However, for the marginalized communities of the Manja and Fuga tribes in southern Ethiopia, access to Read more […]
- 2024-01: Ethiopia / Gashena: Comprehensive major event: eye treatment in January
Our quarterly eye treatment in our clinic in Gashena took place from January 5 to 7, 2024. The turnout was enormous and met a great need. The meeting was planned for 70 to 80 patients, Read more […]